The Street Preacher (1910)

Florence Nixon engaged herself to Henry Martin because she thought he would quickly win a church in the city. He was one of the most promising students of his class at the divinity school and it was only natural to suppose that he would soon find a wealthy congregation. But Henry was an earnest and sincere man. He saw that he was needed upon the street more than in the pulpit and it was a shock to Florence when he wrote that upon his graduation he would become a city missionary. Instead of the mistress of a fashionable parsonage she would be the wife of a street preacher. Her castles in the air quickly vanished and without compunction she wrote to break the engagement and determined to win her own way in the big town. Meantime Martin had become a city missionary and one of his talks so impressed Florence that she urged Ransom to marry her. This he refused to do, but the preacher touched his heart and he went back to Florence to tell her that he would right his wrong. He found her staring at a revolver. She had decided to make away with herself. Ransom took the weapon from her and sent the maid for the minister who so worked upon his feelings. It was Martin, married to Florence's chum and Florence had good reason for being glad that he chose the vocation of street preacher.

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GenresDrama Short
FilmmakersRole
Siegmund Lubin Producer
CastRole
Albert McGovern
Henry Martin - the Street Preacher
Ethel Elder
The Wife